On 11/13/2013 02:06 PM, Joe Gordon wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Sean Dague <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On 11/12/2013 10:25 PM, Robert Collins wrote: > > We shouldn't really be changing the config of the cloud we're testing > > - that stops us being run against actual prod clouds. > > > > Instead we should have some set of profiles we test against - and then > > run different jobs for different profiles, avoiding the problem > > entirely. > > The issue here is we've got an API that's exposed to the admin to do > this, which means for some folks, it would be nice to test this > functionality is working. Per our community mantra "If it's not tested, > it's assumed broken." - > https://twitter.com/russellbryant/status/396889282155008000 > > That being said, in this case in particular, we should probably be more > careful about disabling our only nova-compute during the tests, because, > you know, that might be bad. Today the calls happen so quickly, I think > we've just avoided the race entirely (the enable_disable test has been > in the gate since H2). I've honestly never seen a race that we can track > down to this in the gate. > > For now, I'd agree that enable_disable should probably be removed from a > normal tempest run. I think we've started to find that we have a class > of APIs that impact our runtime in a dramatic enough way, that we need > to be really careful about how we tickle them. I'd be interested in > ideas about how we do that. Remember we also have locking in our bag of > tricks, which is what we need to do around all the aggregate tests, as > those are admin tests on global state. > > > Why not just use the lock in this case?
Well... the only issue is we'd actually have to also lock every compute
call that would get to n-cpu, because the resource we are making go away
is n-cpu. Which is a ton of lock metering for one test.
-Sean
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